Note 101 — Chapter X

We found a curtailed copy of these amusing verses in one of the jeux d’esprit of the time, called “Valpurgis; or, the Devil’s Festival” (William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street, 1831), illustrated by Seymour. With the exception of one immaterial verse, we now give the complete poem; in the ring of the verses the reader will have no difficulty in recognising the hand of the Rev. Richard Harris Barham, subsequently author of the “Ingoldsby Legends.”